Graham Percival escreveu: > Jean-Charles wrote: >> All the documents that I have read about typography and "good use" >> show examples introduced with a colon (:) throughout their content. >> So I think it is normal French typography to do like this. > > To be honest, I'm not certain where the no-colon rule came from. I just > checked a few technical books lying around (I'm in a lab) and they > sometimes used colons. > > Not that I consider blogs to be authoritative, but this article makes > sense to me: > http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/12/23/mind-your-colons/
FWIW, I learned the 'avoid colons' rule both from an editor at GNU press and the famous mathematician Paul Halmos. Rules may be different in other languages, of course. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Code for Music Notation http://www.lilypond-design.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
